Poverty and The Poor

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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." - Aristotle

"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell." - Walter Bagehot

"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." - James Baldwin

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." - John Berger

"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread." - Georges Bernanos

"The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]" - Bible

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